Casa Systems, a specialist in ultra broadband solutions, has announced that Time Warner Cable has completed the deployment of high speed data, voice and QAM video in New York City on Casa System’s integrated CCAP platform. This is the first production deployment, by any MSO in North America, of fully integrated CCAP services as defined […]
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has commenced hybrid TV services on their HD channels with HbbTV technology by Sofia Digital. The TRT Plus services are available via TRT’s HD TV channels broadcasted via Turksat satellite, covering Turkey and most of the European countries for all HbbTV enabled DVB-S2 receivers. The hybrid platform and […]
Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection (episodes one to six) is now available to pre-order in digital HD on Amazon Instant Video for the first time ever. From today, customers will also be able to pre-order a special bundle of all six episodes for purchase via the web. The release date for the movies is […]
Entries are now open for the RTS Young Technologist Award 2015. The aim of the award is to advance education in the science, practice, technology and art of television and its allied fields. The winner will receive a trip to the IBC Conference in Amsterdam as well as a pass to the RTS Cambridge Convention […]
VeEX, a global player in Telecom, CATV, Fibre and Broadband Access, has announced the new Dual Port TX320s Multi-Service Hardware option covering communication technologies for 1.5 Mbps to 11 Gbps: OTN, SONET/SDH, PDH/DSn, Carrier Ethernet, Fibre Channel and CPRI/OBSAI. The new compact dual SFP+ TX320s hardware option reduces the amount of space required for dual […]
France’s telecoms regulator ARCEP has published a summary of the contributions to its consultation on a strategic review of spectrum for superfast mobile, which ran from December 16th 2014 to February 16th 2015. At a time when mobile Internet traffic continues to increase at a tremendous pace, the purpose of the consultation was to examine […]
UK cable MSO Virgin Media has extended its existing five-year partnership with next generation television specialist TiVo for a further three years. As part of the new agreement, Virgin Media has committed to the development of next-generation solutions from TiVo. Virgin Media launched the first set-top box incorporating TiVo software in 2010. Since launch, Virgin […]
Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) says it has distributed some 2.8 million digital TVs to poorer families as part of the nation’s commitment to convert from analogue to digital TV. The government says it will subsidise a total of 13 million TVs and set-top converter boxes as part of the scheme. The IFT says that […]
Sky Deutschland has secured a deal to debut HBO programming in Germany on the same day as its original US broadcast. The agreement takes effect from April 12th with the first episode of Season 5 of Game of Thrones. Sky Deutschland will also run new episodes of HBO series Veep, Silicon Valley and Casual Vacancy […]
German cablers are resisting the Federal government’s planned ban on operators forcing subscribers to take a router supplied them rather than buy a device on the open market. Vodafone and Kabel Deutschland’s February joint submission against the draft legislation has just been revealed. They argue the proposals failed to take into account the shared nature […]